After narrowly surviving both the exit of original director Guillermo Del Toro (which resulted in Peter Jackson deigning to take over once more) and MGM’s Tolkien-worthy epic battle with bankruptcy (which ended in a last-minute save by Spyglass Entertainment), the troubled prequel is now the target of actors’ unions SAG and AFTRA, who have urged members not to accept work on the film. Both unions have raised concerns about guaranteed minimum wages and proper working conditions for New Zealand performers, who have long “struggled” (according to the official statement) under non-union contracts, which also do not provide residuals—and considering how much money the Lord Of The Rings franchise has taken in, that’s sort of a sore point. Now Australia’s Media Entertainment and Art Alliance has banded together with New Zealand’s Actors’ Equity and the International Federation of Actors to seek a new union-negotiated contract, with the intention of working things out at a meeting tomorrow.